National Gallery of Art Deborah Ziska, Information Officer CONTACT: Lisa Knapp, Publicist (202) 842-6804, [email protected] ADVANCE EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The following exhibition information is current as of August 2000. Information is subject to change; please confirm dates, titles, and other pertinent information with the National Gallery of Art press office at (202) 842-6353. / Visit the Gallery's Web site: For detailed information about current and upcoming exhibitions, as well as recent Gallery news, visit the Gallery's new Web site section dedicated to the press at www.nga.gov/xio/presspg.htm. For comprehensive information on the Gallery's collections, history, special features, and events, visit the home page at ivvvvv.nga.gov. UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS FALL 2000 - FALL 2002 Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore September 17, 2000 - February 19, 2001 page 3 Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century October 1, 2000 - February 4, 2001 page 3 Art Nouveau. 1890-1914 October 8, 2000 - January 28, 2001 page 3 - 4 Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s. from the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art October 22, 2000 - February 25, 2001 page 4 Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America January 28 - April 22, 2001 page 4 Cv Twomblv: The Sculpture May 6 - July 29, 2001 page 5 Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Bend and Renaissance Portraits of Women September 30, 2001 - January 6, 2002 page 5 Aelbert Cuyp October 7, 2001 - January 13, 2002 page 5 - more - Fourth Street at Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20505 (202) 842-6353, Facsimile (202) 842-2403 advance exhibition schedule ... page 2 Henry Moore October 21, 2001 - January 27, 2002 page 6 A Century of Drawings (working title) November 18, 2001 - April 7, 2002 page 6 Flora and Pomona: Two Centuries of Botanical Art for the Medici March 3 - May 27, 2002 page 6 Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection at the National Gallery of Art (working title) March 17 - June 24, 2002 page 7 Anne Vallaver-Coster: Still-Life in the Age of Marie Antoinette June 30 - September 29, 2002 page 7 Visual Sounds: The Art of Romare Bearden September 15, 2002 - January 12, 2003 page 7 SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION PRINTS AND DRAWINGS GALLERIES Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Chanler Bequest June 18 - October 9, 2000 page 8 Through the Window: Framing and Meaning June 18-October 9, 2000 page 8 Prints and Drawings from the Ravenel-Smvth Bequest June 18-October 9, 2000 page 8 Prints and Proofs by Richard Diebenkorn June 18-October 9, 2000 page 8 The Unfinished Print (working title) June 3 - October 7, 2001 page 8 ITALIAN CABINET GALLERIES Opening September 17, 2000 page 9 CURRENT EXHIBITION The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe. 1600-1750 May 21 - October 9, 2000 page 9 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (background) page 10 - more - advance exhibition schedule ... page 3 UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS FALL 2000 - FALL 2002 SMALL NORTHERN EUROPEAN PORTRAITS FROM THE WALTERS ART GALLERY. BALTIMORE National Gallery of Art, West Building Dutch Cabinet Galleries September 17, 2000 - February 19, 2001 Selected primarily from the collection of The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, this exhibition focuses on small-scale portraits made in northern Europe between the mid-15th and late-17th centuries. Forty-three works ranging from illuminated manuscripts and oil paintings, to enamels, bronze figurines, medals, and prints reveal the inherent intimacy of the small portrait masterpiece. Joining the Walters masterpieces are portraits from the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection and generous loans from other public and private collections. The exhibition is organized into four broad themes representing the most important aspects of small-scale portraiture from this period: devotional portraits, political portraits, English and French miniatures, and Dutch intimate portraits. The accompanying brochure is made possible by Juliet and Lee Folger/The Folger Fund. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. ART FOR THE NATION: COLLECTING FOR A NEW CENTURY National Gallery of Art, West Building October 1, 2000 - February 4, 2001 Celebrating the standards of excellence on which the nation's collection is built, this exhibition brings together 140 recent acquisitions from the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs by such acclaimed masters as Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Diirer, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Cole, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as important works by lesser-known artists, demonstrate the breadth and depth of collecting since the Gallery's fiftieth anniversary exhibition in 1991. The exhibition is made possible by Verizon Foundation. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. ART NOUVEAU. 1890-1914 Victoria and Albert Museum, London April 6 - July 30, 2000 National Gallery of Art, East Building October 8, 2000 - January 28, 2001 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum April 21 -JuneS, 2001 The largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever presented on this innovative and exuberant style of modern art includes more than 350 masterpieces in painting, sculpture, graphics, glass, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and architecture. A Paris Metropolitain Entrance (c.1898) by Hector Guimard, a Glasgow luncheon room designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a double parlor by Agostino Lauro from a villa outside of Turin are among the highlights. This vibrant fin-de-siecle era will be celebrated with an overview of objects from the World's Fair of 1900 in Paris, followed by sections presenting sources of the Art Nouveau style and examples from eight cities in which the new style flourished: Paris, Brussels, Glasgow, Vienna, Munich, Turin, New York, and Chicago. - more - advance exhibition schedule ... page 4 A brief film (15 minutes) produced by the National Gallery of Art will be shown continuously in a theater adjacent to the exhibition. Works of art in the exhibition and important Art Nouveau architectural landmarks are complemented by interviews with prominent scholars and rare archival footage of the period. The exhibition is made possible by DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund. Additional support is provided by the Terra Foundation for the Arts, Robert P. and Arlene R. Kogod, Eleanor and Donald Taffner, and the Fund for the International Exchange of Art. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The exhibition has been organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington. PRINTS ABOUND: PARIS IN THE 1890S. FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF VIRGINIA AND IRA JACKSON AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART National Gallery of Art, East Building October 22, 2000 - February 25, 2001 More than 120 original prints for posters, portfolios, illustrated books and journals, and song sheets will represent the many manifestations of artists' printed images in late 19th-century France. Twenty- two important drawings and watercolors related to prints in the exhibition will also be on display. Primarily selected from the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, the exhibition will feature works by 28 artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Gauguin. Bonnard's graphic works will be represented in depth, including his magnificent four-panel color- lithographic folding screen, Promenade des Nourrices. Frise des Fiacres (Nursemaids' Promenade. Frieze of Carriages (1895), and a delightful music primer for children, Petit solfege illustre (published 1893). In addition to published editions of the music primer, nine of the Jacksons' marvelous preparatory watercolors for the book's illustrations will be on view. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND MODERN ART IN AMERICA National Gallery of Art, West Building Prints and Drawings Gallery January 28 - April 22, 2001 Including 175 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper this exhibition will be the first to explore fully Alfred Stieglitz's seminal role in the development of modern art in America, as photographer, publisher, and gallery director. It will examine the lively and fertile exchange of art and ideas that Stieglitz promoted by presenting many of the exact works he showed at his galleries, "291" (1908-1917), the Intimate Gallery (1925-1929), and An American Place (1929-1946). The first section focuses on Stieglitz's introduction to America of European modern art at his first New York gallery, and presents the first works shown in America that were produced by such key figures as Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Featured in this section will be two partial reconstructions of a 1914 exhibition of African art and a 1914 show of Brancusi's sculpture. The second section begins by examining the formation of American modernism, demonstrating the rich experimentation in both materials and subject matter that Stieglitz fostered in the 1920s. It concludes with monographic presentations of the mature works by artists of the Stieglitz circle Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, and Stieglitz himself presented in his last gallery, An American Place. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. - more - advance exhibition schedule ... page 5 CY TWOMBLY: THE SCULPTURE Kunstmuseum, Basel March 15-July 30, 2000 The Menil Collection, Houston September 20, 2000 - January 7, 2001 National Gallery of Art, East Building May 6 - July 29, 2001 This is the first exhibition to explore the sculpture of American artist Cy Twombly (b. 1928), one of the most important figures of the postwar period. Like his contemporaries Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Twombly creates classic works that stand apart from most categories and schools.